Before submitting your site to search engines you should make sure that your meta-tags have all the information you want for your users to search, see and click. Doing your meta-tags right ...

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Though it’s possible to design one web site hundreds of times, we won’t do it. We will instead clothe one site with a multitude of different looks.

HTML is the primary markup language used on the web. After its first release, it lacked many of the features taken for granted today on the web. It took many years for HTML to become what it is. In fact, almost four years passed between the first attempts at a markup language and HTML 2.0. In the ye...

An ASCII Chart is a simple way to keep a list of what all the printable, or displayable characters are. All computers store information as a set of 1's and 0's (bits), not as actual characters. A group of eight (8) bits make a byte. Believe it or not, four bits actually make a nibble and two nibbl.....

Form validation on the client-side is essential - it saves time and bandwidth; you also have better control to show the user the wrong field. This comparison of different validation methods includes comments for improving portability and maintainability.

What Is a Title Tag? The title tag is one of the most important factors in achieving high search engine rankings. A title tag is essentially an HTML code snippet that creates the words that appear in the top bar of your Web browser. The HTML code for a title tag looks...

Editor's Pick in HTML and CSS Tutorials, October 2005
Find out why web design guide Jennifer Kyrnin says that while frames are not the ultimate evil that some people profess, she still doesn't use them much on her personal sites.

Editor's Pick in HTML and CSS Articles, October 2005
Steve Mulder and Michael Brandt claim that when you're creating a web page, size matters. Here they provide measurements of website elements and discuss ways to design for the most popular browsers.

When I help people with web pages, I always encourage them to edit the HTML directly and not rely on programs like Microsoft FrontPage or Adobe GoLive to layout their pages. One of the first things that people have a hard time grasping is what

Greater-than and less-than signs have special meaning within HTML documents and, because of this, can't be used on a web page unless they are specified in a particular way. These special characters are specified in HTML by "surrounding" a simple description of them with an ampersand (&) and a sem...